#Jacob Arminius Full PDF Package

Jacob Arminius Full PDF Package

Download Full PDF Package. 3 This tendency toward polarization is not without cause.The Life and Influence of Jacob Arminius. 2 Arminius is generally either vilified as an enemy or embraced as a friend few theologians seem to view him from a neutral posture. 15601609) either as a hero or a heretic. As one writer has noted, most theologians regard Jacob Arminius (c. Republished with permission.

Yet they rather easily dismiss Calvinist criticisms of the implications of Arminius' thought, whether on subordinationism (p. Little analysis is given to the fairness of Arminius's often repeated and biting criticism that unconditional predestination logically makes God the author of sin (see for example p. Download Full PDF Package.Third, our authors note that Arminius was often more the critic than the constructive theologian: 'Arminius's major treatises that deal with predestination give much more attention to what he opposes than to what he proposes' (p. 33 Full PDFs related to this paper.

The seventeenth-century Remonstrants, who looked back to him as a hero, departed from him radically in the direction of Socinian or Enlightenment thought. He did not originate a school of theology or inspire followers who continued or refined his thought. He published almost nothing during his lifetime and did not present anything that was creative, novel, or innovative in his theology. But by almost any other criteria the book itself seems to acknowledge that he was not very important.